Getting Wood Ready for a U.P. Winter
When the Family Farm is Gone
A Tractor Ride in an Upper Peninsula Field
Summer’s Short Lease
Dressed for the Soo Locks Centennial 1955
Visitors to the Easter Upper Peninsula
A Yooper Girl Gone but Not Forgotten
The Hands of a Yooper
Summer on an Upper Peninsula SideRoad
A Father’s Day Gift
The Bellamy Salute to Old Glory

by Sharon M. Kennedy In 1892, Francis Bellamy wrote the “Pledge of Allegiance.” It wasn’t long thereafter that Daniel Ford, owner of a children’s magazine called The Youth’s Companion, asked an editor to create a physical movement to accompany the pledge. I’ll skip all the ins-and-outs and simply say the…
Diamond Cab of Sault Ste. Marie, MI
The Metamorphosis of a Political Party
Plastic Flowers and Memorial Day
Tilling Time in the Upper Peninsula
My Mother, My Dearest
Stepping on a Shadow
Announcing “The SideRoad Columnist: Observations from an Upper Michigan Author”

Take a trip down the U.P.’s many SideRoads with Sharon Kennedy Penned by the author in recent years, The SideRoad Columnist presents a selection of previously published newspaper columns. To delight the reader, each installment tells a complete story in miniature. This book includes a mixture of nostalgia, humor, shared…